On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Jonathan Cast wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:45 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
[... re programming language machismo ... ]
>> Haskell already has that reputation, and so far as I've seen most
>> programmers conclude they shouldn't waste time on it when "any half-
>> trained monkey can write Java/Perl/Python".
>> And regularly does. Unfortunately, American culture is such that most
> people *aspire* to being half-trained monkeys...
Yes, when programmers care more about what they're creating,
than the tools they create it with, you have to wonder what's
become of us.
Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com